Gossip: New High Limit Poker Room @ Aria to be named "Ivey's Room" - Poker News

Just went to the mailbox to get today's mail and saw a nice package from Aria. In it was an invitation to a poker tournament featuring big name pros including Phil Ivey. It will take place in their new high limit room, The Ivey Room.

I don't follow B&M much so I don't know if this is common knowledge but do see threads about "i heard the big game was moving to aria" popping up all of the time, so this may lend some credibility. See pictures below.

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04-19-2010 , 08:26 PM

Atropa Komarovii

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weird of them to print the invitation on horizontal paper. i dont know how they expect anyone to be able to read it.

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04-19-2010 , 08:27 PM

Rupert

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Looks good if real, mind me asking who you are OP?

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04-19-2010 , 08:34 PM

ShipDaSherb

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What's the entry fee for that tourney?

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04-19-2010 , 08:40 PM

Redurrrrted

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OP is phil ivey. this is just shameless self promotion

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04-19-2010 , 08:52 PM

Jubu

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Why should people go to aria to play ivey? they should lock him there and continue playing at bellagio so some of them have a decent shot to beat the game

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04-19-2010 , 09:20 PM

Nerdrage

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all prizes will be paid in aria promotional chips.
What does that mean

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04-19-2010 , 09:33 PM

BT2

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remember that part of spacejam where the aliens were gonna tie michael jordan to a chain hooked up to a basketball court and force him to play against people all day and night, and lose? well that is what ivey's room is.

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04-19-2010 , 09:39 PM

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lol i watched space jam just the other day

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04-19-2010 , 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Rupert

Looks good if real, mind me asking who you are OP?

I am just some donk that plays casino games

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Originally Posted by ShipDaSherb

What's the entry fee for that tourney?

it's a free roll -- i played golf w/ poker and nfl players last poker tournament

here is my blackjack one this weekend http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/10...4-27-a-764289/

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Originally Posted by Nerdrage

all prizes will be paid in aria promotional chips.
What does that mean

it's not paid in cash, paid in chips, to gamble more with

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04-20-2010 , 12:58 AM

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lovepuppy11

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sweet its justified.

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04-20-2010 , 01:31 AM

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UGotStacked

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Wow, talk about ballin', getting million dollar tourneys against Phil Ivey comped. Nice.

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04-20-2010 , 02:00 AM

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lol quite the top heavy promo. 1st is a bit less than 375k, depending on the heads up versus Ivey structure and 2nd is 70k? Ouch.

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04-20-2010 , 02:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Scary_Tiger

lol quite the top heavy promo. 1st is a bit less than 375k, depending on the heads up versus Ivey structure and 2nd is 70k? Ouch.

all of these promos are. there is about 1 a month. but in the next four weeks there are about four, so it's kind of hectic. All of them are top heavy. For instance, last September the blackjack was a 750k winner take all. It got chopped 50k 8 ways, then they left 350 for first, and 1st and 2nd chopped again.

Lots of times there will be deals. Because even though the people playing are suppose to have theoreticals of 250k +/- a trip, there is a huge difference between 400 and 200 between 1st and 2nd so lots of chops.

there is a million bellagio blackjack next month and then another poker/golf with nfl pros again i think soon.

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04-20-2010 , 02:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Nerdrage

all prizes will be paid in aria promotional chips.
What does that mean

It means you can't cash them out. You can only gambool with them until you lose them or win more.

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04-20-2010 , 02:33 AM

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It means you can't cash them out. You can only gambool with them until you lose them or win more.

they are play until you lose and have an EV of around 99.2% playing Baccarat

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04-20-2010 , 02:33 AM

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OP how much did you lose to get invited to this? We all know that private casino tournies for baccarat and blackjack require you to drop some serious coin.

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04-20-2010 , 02:36 AM

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Originally Posted by DietPepsi13

Farha won one of the Bellagio tournies last year. There was a 2p2 thread about this.

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04-20-2010 , 02:41 AM

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"The Ivey Room" not "Ivey's Room"

you missed out on the pun op

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04-20-2010 , 02:52 AM

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"The Ivey Room" not "Ivey's Room"

you missed out on the pun op

haha, whoops -- i saw the pun, but thought it was part of it all. O well -- and I actually won to get invite to this. atleast @ MGM properties. They still think I have 100s of thousands of their dollars. When the truth is it's been efficiently distributed between other casino properties, bookies, private poker games, and department stores. I will continue to milk the MGM comp train until it runs dry though. I haven't had a big trip there since Decemeber and they continue to send me tickets to boxing matches, ufc, concerts, all these tourneys, etc. I go, play and enjoy them, while playing at about 1/10th the level i did last year.

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04-20-2010 , 03:15 AM

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Atropa Komarovii

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It means you can't cash them out. You can only gambool with them until you lose them or win more.

if you put it all on black and win do you get to cash out all of it or only the half that you won?

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04-20-2010 , 03:25 AM

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OP your a degen...Thats cool though

And if you were to win you cant play poker with those winnings.

I guess it's either red or black if not.

I personally would ask for a high stakes Texas hold-em bonus game and split the winnings between 2-4 hands at the table. You don't even need a strong hand to win at that game. And the bonus pay outs are ridiculous.

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04-20-2010 , 04:24 AM

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They need a promotion. Nobody in the casino or card room. Most disappointing new casino/poker room in Vegas history (given all the hype). I can hear creditors screams...

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04-20-2010 , 04:35 AM

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CHENGPOKER

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Originally Posted by nuisance

I personally would ask for a high stakes Texas hold-em bonus game and split the winnings between 2-4 hands at the table. You don't even need a strong hand to win at that game. And the bonus pay outs are ridiculous.

I think if you do that you will never receive another invite again

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04-20-2010 , 04:55 AM

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Originally Posted by DietPepsi13

Yup I figure you have about 2 more trips before they drop your comp levels. They'll still keep comping you, but your host will want to ask youu why you arent playing as high, blah, blah , blah...

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